Chinese Smart Cities investment near-doubled to around $140 billion by 2020 in the construction of almost 800 domestic smart cities (almost 50% globally and including 90% of prefecture cities) with a $3.9 trillion domestic market by 2022 at a trebling from 2018 facilitated by over 600 million installed video security cameras. 

 

Over $1 trillion will be invested by 2025 on tier-two and tier-three smart cities with 80% ($800 billion) for high-speed rail, autonomous/electric vehicles, renewable energy, 5G, and AI to help achieve the construction of these sustainable, smart supercities by 2030.

 

The $583 billion Xiong’an New Area, the world's first autonomous AI city, will become northern China’s centre of innovation with only autonomous/electric vehicles, 100% renewably-powered, and by 2025 will have over 4,000 km of high-speed rail track to serve its population of 25 million by 2035. 

 

The globally-pioneering Liuzhou Forest City in Guangxi, covered by almost one million plants and 40,000 trees, will operate on solar and geothermal power with only electric vehicles and electric rail transportation. 

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Chongqing’s Cloud Valley AI smart city will feature China’s biggest night-time digital display and public solar-panelled rooftop gardens, service robots, and a 5G-IoT powered 90% big data comprehensive analysis system for perpetual innovation.

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Find out more about the future of Smart Cities in Digital Provinces Guide: Countdown to the Chinese Century, Dawn of the Digital Dragon Dynasty: Countdown to the Chinese Century, and Dawn of the Digital Dragon Dynasty: Global Economy in Shop.